Monthly Archives: October 2017

Dear Reader: Happy Halloween! Last week I was browsing through children’s books on Amazon.com about Halloween…and when I found this old Scholastic one…I had to laugh out loud. This little children’s book (written by a “Barber”) features a ghost named … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I remember hearing on numerous occasions… from quotes in medical magazines, to true cancer survivor stories and books…the expression that “cancer is just a detour”….and that we are to remind ourselves of this fact while looking forward to … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I came across a devotional by Quinn Caldwell that made me pause and contemplate man’s on-going search for security through our own  man-made armor and not God’s…it might make us feel safer but usually ends up in a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I was looking at two trees on Country Club Blvd while walking the other day… remembering how breath-taking they were last year. But this year they have’t turned yet. So when I got home I looked up a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Did you know that the first man-made maps ( ever created) dealt with the heavens…the stars, moon, and sun? Guess what? I learned about it from the twelfth (sadly next to the last -to date) Louise Penny  detective … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: If I could recreate a real-life version of “Groundhog Day” (where, as in the movie, each day repeats itself) I would have chosen yesterday. Does the sky get any bluer than October with temps in the sixties, and … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When Brooke, Jackson, and I went to New York City (five years ago-2012) to see the Broadway Show…The Jersey Boys… we had a ball. We, also, wanted to go see the Twin Towers Memorial Park (Ground Zero) and … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: *Interesting God Wink. I was looking up something on the connection between the season of fall and faith and when I googled the two words …up popped my blog written just a little over a year ago today. … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I think I have been slowly going through some kind of metamorphosis of late. If you look up the definition for this word the dictionary says: Definition of metamorphosis – (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The theme for this year’s Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure was…More Than Pink…and it certainly was! It was sixteen shades of blues, grays, blacks, tans, green, yellows and white. Sixteen family members and close friends who … Continue reading →